Gulag: A History

ANNE APPLEBAUM was born in Washington, D.C., received a bachelor’s degree from Yale, and studied at Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics on a Marshall scholarship. In 1988, she moved to Poland to work for theEconomist, and a few years later became foreign editor, then deputy editor, of theSpectator. Her work has also appeared in theNew York Review of Books, theWall Street Journal,Slateand other British and American publications. She is the author of one previous book,Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe. After living for more than fifteen years in Europe, she joined the editorial board of theWashington Postin 2002 and now lives in Washington, D.C.